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Di di di di di la la la la la la
In a spaceship over the mountains Chasing rainbows in the setting sun Leaving heart and home for the city of angels I feel my life is undone There are pathways winding below me In pleasure I've gone where they go In the quiet stillness I can hear symphonies The loveliest music I know How can I leave you again I must be clear out of my mind Lost in a storm I've gone blind Oh, how can I leave you again Oh, it's been a long time since I've listened Still longer since I've walked with you For the first time I know what I'm missing Some answers are no longer true So I question the course that I follow I'm doubtful and deep in despair My heart is filled with impossible notions Can it be you no longer care? Still, I ride on the wings of a high wind Blowing steady and strong behind me As the clouds surrender my fate is for certain I'm a sailor who runs to the sea How can I leave you again I must be clear out of my mind Lost in a storm I've gone blind Oh, how can I leave you again |
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This song was first released on the I Want To Live Album. It is the only album it has been released on.
Ridin' on a tradewind Fillin' my sails with a soft and southerly breeze Livin' on the ocean blue Dreaming' of the islands Rappin' myself in the glow of a tropical moon I never shiver when the sun goes down All the Earth she sings to me Every shallow, every tree Surely my loves shining like the sea I can make you happy If I can I'll take you away on a wave in my arms Never leave you on the edge all alone If you feel like dancin' Rollin' like the water across my sleepless night Makin me a peaceful place All my life to be with you All I ever want to do Knowing you are feeling that way too Distant thunder, heavy seas Rocky Mountain memories Surely I was lost till I found thee Ye Ye Ye Words and music by John Denver |
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Bet on the Blues (Paxton)
Copyright 1975 Accabonac Music Five hundred'll buy you a stack. Bet it on the red or the black and you'll lose, bet on the blues. You tell me you're a gambling man. Try to beat the house if you can and you lose, bet on the blues. If you're looking to get an inside slant, if you're looking for something so good you can't refuse, bet on the blues. Find a man who thinks he's over the hump, I'm here to tell you he's a kind of a chump you can use, bet on the blues, bet on the blues. Lucky old sun is shining today. Even money says you'll be paying some dues, bet on the blues. You say you found your lady fair. Eight to five she's wearing her traveling shoes, bet on the blues. Five hundred'll buy you a stack. Bet it on the red or the black and you'll lose, bet on the blues. You tell me you're a gambling man. Try to beat the house if you can and you lose, bet on the blues. If you're looking to get an inside slant, if you're looking for something so good you can't refuse, bet on the blues, bet on the blues, bet on the blues, bet on the blues, bet on the blues. |
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This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live Album. It has been released on The Rocky Mountain Collection, The Country Roads Collection and the Country Classics Albums.
You came looking for the answers To some questions on his mind Seeking truth and understanding In the hope that he would find A way to better serve his brothers And his sisters in the sun Sharing all that he has given Giving all to everyone Come and listen to the story Of a journey once begun Of a people and their plenty And their season in the sun And how they gave themselves to symbols And things that they could hold Living lives in desperation In the fear of letting go It amazes me And I know the wind will surely one day Blow it all away It amazes me And I'm so very grateful that you made the world this way For our plans have come together now Where do we go from here Will our differences divide us Must we always live in fear For there are things that we must move through Some things to cast aside But our father watches over us Our mother will provide It amazes me And I know the wind will someday surely Blow it all away It amazes me And I'm so very grateful that you made the world this way It amazes me It amazes me It amazes me Words and music by John Denver |
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This song appears on five albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live Album, and has also been recorded on the Earth Songs, Country Classics, The Very Best of John Denver (Single CD) and The John Denver Collection - Rocky Mountain High Albums.
There are times I fear I lose myself I don't know who I am I get caught up in the struggle and the strain With my back against a stonewall My finger in the dam Losin' strength and goin' down again And I take a look around me My eyes can't find the sun There's nothing wild as far as I can see Then my heart turns to Alaska And freedom on the run I can hear her spirit callin' me To the mountains, I can rest there To the rivers, I will be strong To the forest, I'll find peace there To the wild country, where I belong Oh, I know some times I worry On worldly ways and means And I can see the future killing me On a misbegotten highway Of prophecies and dreams A road to nowhere and eternity And I know it's just changes Yes, and mankind marchin' on I know we can't live in yesterday But compared to what we're losin' And what it means to me I'd give my life and throw the rest away To the mountains, I can rest there To the rivers, I will be strong To the forest, I'll find peace there To the wild country, where I belong To the wild country, where I belong Words and music by John Denver |
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This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live album, and has also been released on the The Country Roads Collection album.
Got ripplin' waters to wake me To be more than my woman in love All pine trees are pointin' to see easily To see heaven above Blue spruce flamin' on the grate in the evening Takes the chill away fine Cut the telephone line The story's the same There's a worn red chair by the window That you found at a sale down the way When some old women said that they Needed more room for the winter People like pullin' at the stuffing When they sit down So it passes the time Cut the telephone line The story's the same Ooh, like a bubble on a windy day Start to flutter when I hear you say That you feel too good to go away And you make me feel fine And you made the world a warmer place By the sparkle of your diamond face On a gray spot with a little lace And you make me feel fine Warm as a mountain in sunshine On the edge of the snowline In a meadow of columbine Oh little Gennifer I'd give a penny for What you've got on your mind Seems like most of the time you're lyin' there dreamin' Maybe in your vision you see how Our mission is slightly less than divine Cut the telephone line The story's the same Now, ripplin' waters flow through the ceiling And the walls there, their keepin' me warm And the closest I've been with my family for days Is my music But the silently stare in the morning sky Is like hearing her calling my name Cut the telephone line The story might change Ooh, like a bubble on a windy day Start to flutter when I hear you say That you feel too good to go away And you make me feel fine Warm as a mountain sunshine On the edge of the snowline In a meadow of columbine Words and music by Jimmy Ibotson |
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Thirsty Boots
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live album, and has also been released on The Rocky Mountain Collection and The Country Roads Collection albums. You've long been on the open road You've been sleepin' in the rain From dirty words and muddy cells You're clothes are soiled and stained But the dirty words, the mud of cells Will soon be judged insane So only stop and rest yourself And you'll be off again Oh take off your thirsty boots And stay for awhile Your feet are hard and weary From a dusty mile And maybe I can make you laugh And maybe I can try Lookin' for the evening And the morning in your eyes Then tell me of the ones you saw As far as you could see Across the plains from field to town Marchin' to be free And of the rusted prison gates That tumbled by degree Like laughing children one by one They look like you and me So take off your thirsty boots And stay for awhile Your feet are hard and weary From a dusty mile And maybe I can make you laugh And maybe I can try Just lookin' for the evening And the morning in your eyes I know you are no stranger now A crooked rainbow trail From dancing cliffheads shattered sills To slander shackled jails Where the voices drift up from below Its walls are being scaled Yes, all of this, and more my friend Your song SHALL not be failed |
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This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live album, and has also been released on the Changes, Reflections: Songs of Love and Life and The Country Roads Collection albums.
Dearest Esmeralda, in another age Antiques would be modern, we would be the rage Silk would be in fashion, we would dress in lace Love would be the passion and the saving grace I slept one rainy night with you in Paris Made up for a thousand wasted years Dearest Esmeralda, you are magic I close my eyes and you make love appear Dancing in the shimmer of a crystal chandelier Shadows singin' so low only we could hear Moving to the glimmer, shaking to the storm Outside it was raging, but inside it was warm We said goodnight in the candlelight and thunder Now I wake and find you're never there I'm becoming old enough to wonder Happy that I'm still too young to care Masterpieces crumble, empires tumble down Refugees and fantasies go underground Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away They may take our future, but they don't stop yesterday ‘Cause somewhere in the cloudy skies of Paris we were part of some artist's design Dearest Esmeralda, you are magic In the gray around me how you shine Oh oh, how you shine Words and music by Bill Danoff |
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This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live Album, and has also been released on The Country Roads Collection Album.
So many years ago, I can't remember now Someone was waiting for me I had the answers to all of my questions Love was so easy to see, I didn't know When I was younger, I should have known better I thought nothing was new Through all the spaces, and all of the changes What I lost sight of was you I didn't know, I didn't know I could see you in singing skies and dancing waters laughing children growing old And in the heart and in the spirit And in the truth when it is told My life became shady, and I grew afraid And I needed to find my way home I just couldn't see you, I thought that I'd lost you I never felt so much alone, are you still with me Somehow in reason, I lost sight of seasons I'm growin' out, growin' in Sometimes in evenings, when daylight was needed I thought I'd never see you again Are you still with me, are you still with me I'm with you in singing skies and dancing waters laughing children growing old And in the heart and in the spirit And in the truth when it is told If my faith should falter And I should forsake you, and find myself turning away Will you still be there, will you still be there I'll be there in singing skies and dancing waters laughing children growing old And in the heart and in the spirit And in the truth when it is told Words and music by John Denver |
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There are children raised in sorrow
On a scorched and barren plain There are children raised beneath the golden sun There are children of the water And children of the sand And they cry out through the universe Their voices raised as one I want to live I want to grow I want to see I want to know I want to share what I can give I want to be I want to live Have you gazed out on the ocean Seen the breaching of a whale? Have you watched the dolphins frolic in the foam? Have you heard the song the humpback hears five hundred miles away Telling tales of ancient history of passages and home? I want to live I want to grow I want to see I want to know I want to share what I can give I want to be I want to live For the worker and the warrior the lover and the liar For the native and the wanderer in kind For the maker and the user and the mother and her son I am looking for my family and all of you are mine We are standing all together Face to face and arm in arm We are standing on the threshold of a dream No more hunger no more killing No more wasting life away It is simply an idea And I know its time has come I want to live I want to grow I want to see I want to know I want to share what I can give I want to be I want to live |
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This song appears on 3 albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live Album, and has also been released on the Changes Album, and Harbor Lights Concert Album:
If I had my druthers I'd go fishin' Find myself a lake and a lazy day If I had my druthers I'd quit wishin' Get off the old caboose get on my way. Give me whole lots of laughter Great big barrels of fun Nightime full of romance Daytime full of fun If I had my druthers I'd go flyin' - oooh Lookin' for the things I'd like to see - yeah If I had my druthers I'd be tryin' tryin' The only way to be what I can be Give me somebody to love me Make me feel like the only one Something thst's worth doing Lord I feel good when it's well done. If I had my druthers I'd go sailin' - yes I would Catch me campin' out on the open sea If I had my druthers I'd be singin' Just how good this good life feels to me - feels so good You just need somesome to talk to Something you can share You don't need no reason for livin' Lord It's already there - yes it is - oooh oooh It makes me giggle I can't sit down I'm goin' fishin'!!! Words and music by John Denver |
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